New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Wonderful experience to present my poster on how biomes structure global biodiversity at #TIBS2026 this week in #Aarhus! I had great discussions with a group of creative #Biogeography researchers. Thanks for all that reach out and exchange ideas. See you in #Beijing in 2028!

@wennading.bsky.social from the DME lab presented her great work at #TIBS2026 on the origin of mountain floras in response to biotic assembly, orogeny and climate change. If you are interested, her is the latest paper on the topic: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Interesting talk by @nezimmermann.bsky.social from our DME lab today at #TIBS2026 on a new conceptual framework on #BiomeBiogeography. This concept is at the core of our #biome project, in which several lab members are involved.

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Climate change has already reshaped the bioclimatic space of extreme events in the Arctic 🌐❄️ Arctic biodiversity has entered a new era of bioclimatic extremes w/ more droughts, greater winter-warming 📈 & more rain-on-snow events 💧❄️ shorturl.at/pQsVP Just published in Science Advances ⬇️

I’ll be presenting my work: Biome.jl, a flexible package for mechanistic biome simulations at poster 1052 today of #TIBS2026, come chat with me!

Elena Plekhanova from @wsl-dme.bsky.social just gave a very interesting talk on how to use #AI in combination with #RemoteSensing to map global #biomes. #Macroecology #Biodiversity #Mapping @wslresearch.bsky.social

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

Next week we host the #TIBS2026 #biogeography conference @au.dk, welcoming ~400 biogeographers from around the world🌍Biogeography is vital for understanding the #biosphere & guiding planetary #stewardship. Looking forward to an inspiring week🌤️🌴https://conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-2026 #biodiversity

Hopping Hotspots Shaped the Global Biogeography and Diversification of Orectolobiform sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

How have mountain building and climate change shaped alpine biodiversity over millions of years? Check out our new study in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Evolution of #conifer seed cones 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by @kmatsunaga @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Our latest paper on fish communities in nearly 80 peri-alpine lakes reveals that community assembly through immigration and speciation respond to different dimensions of ecosystem size: area and depth respectively. Check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BKFKRT...

🍂🌳 #PhDAlert! MSc in #EnvironmentalSciences or a related field and interested in plant #phenology and #ecophysiology? Good level of fitness to carry out field work in remote locations? Our #Ecosystem #Ecology group offers a #PhD position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1789/... #ScienceJobs

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

📱🌱 Plant identification apps are booming – but which one is the best? And how reliable are the results? 🤔 Our researchers collected over 5,000 photos of 560 Swiss plant species from 85 habitat types and tested the most popular apps.🔎 Here are the findings: shorturl.at/lD0Cl

🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...

@clechartre.bsky.social reimplemented #BIOME4 into a modular, high-performance #Julia version, enabling 1 km vegetation modeling 🌱 and integration of #CHELSA climate datasets. 🌦️ We can now simulate biome patterns across complex terrains ⛰️ and define biome boundaries with greater accuracy. 🎯

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory

In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Go check out our event-based evaluation! Beyond the global scale patterns of increasing multi-year droughts, there are over 10,000 identified events inventoried with explicit spatiotemporal coverage, from which one could easily extract events of their whatever interest across disciplines and uses.

🌿 What makes plants in tropical ecosystems so unique & remarkably adapted to their environment? 🌸✨ We explored this question during a visit to the Botanical Garden in Zurich, guided by our group member dirknkarger.bsky.social‬ — a fantastic opportunity to observe tropical plant traits up close. 🔎🌱

Very happy to see this out today! Our review explores the transformative role of angiosperms in shaping terrestrial ecosystems from the Cretaceous to the Cenozoic, detailing five key phases of angiosperm evolution by integrating fossil and molecular evidence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bert Wuyts is sharing our latest work on modeling #tipping-points in mountain ecosystems ⛰️ at the #TipESM annual meeting. Do #mountain #ecosystems hit critical tipping points in a warming world — and if so, when? 🌍⚠️ A great chance to exchange ideas. @tipesm.bsky.social ial @wsl-dme.bsky.social

In my latest interview for @botany.one, I present you the work of @renskeonstein.bsky.social, a researcher always looking for the "big picture" of plant evolution and biogeography #Botany #PlantScience #SciComm 🧪🌍 Renske's research is something you don't want to miss! botany.one/2025/03/rens...

The SCION Earth Evolution Model is turning 4 years old this spring. We have celebrated by extending the framework back to ~1 Ga before present We find some agreement with broad environmental trends from the rock record, but there is still plenty to learn! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That's fantastic news! 🎉 The #paleo community is embracing our recommendations for using #fossil #pollen data in #macroecology studies! 🌿 Check it out 🔗 bit.ly/FOSSILPOL A joint first author with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social , V. Felde & K. Bhatta! #GEB #global #ecology #biogeography #palaeoecology

'No one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question.' For #IDWGS2025, the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division asked scientists from across the faculty about the advice they wish they had received at the beginning of their careers ⬇️

Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

Friendly reminder: Our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity has an early application track this year! If you need a visa to Switzerland, apply by March 15. You'll be notified by early April, giving you more time for the visa application process. biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

In this mountain biodiversity review, we emphasized roles of habitat creation, disruption, and oscillation in driving biodiversity. Additionally, we developed a set of geomorphic predictors that may influence biodiversity patterns, with the potential for application to other montane systems.

New paper in @science.org ! Where and when did the #multiyear-droughts occur around the world? Have they become more prevailing? We identified over 10,000 such events and found that they have been increasingly occupying the terrestrial land. (1/6) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado4245

🌍 Mega-droughts are becoming more frequent and intense globally. Our study in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... shows that multi-year droughts have significantly increased over the last 40 years with severe impacts @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social @extremeswsl.bsky.social (1/7) 🧵

Walter Jetz & @dirknkarger.bsky.social presented their work on “Mountain Thermal Belts in a Changing #Climate.”🤓 Using #CHELSA climate data on structuring the elevation belts of global #mountains by thermal belts anchored to the #alpine treeline has led to a new high-resolution (90m) dataset.⛰️🛰️💻

A very comprehensive study on stick and leaf insects and so cool pictures! Lineages can independently colonize similar habitats, repeatedly evolving in parallel directions of similar body forms. #Adaptive #Evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...